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Top 100 Scientists in Australia

The most publicly visible scientists in Australia.

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The most famous scientists in Australia right now — ranked by the public attention they command across search, news, Wikipedia, and social.

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#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	—	Damien Leith	Australia	Scientists	61.4	4.7
#2	—	Elizabeth Blackburn	Australia	Scientists	59.0	0.0
#3	—	Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov	Australia	Scientists	58.7	0.0
#4	—	Lionel Logue	Australia	Scientists	58.4	4.9
#5	—	Jessica Watson	Australia	Scientists	55.8	0.0
#6	—	John Cornforth	Australia	Scientists	55.7	4.9
#7	—	Lachlan Macquarie	Australia	Scientists	53.4	0.5
#8	—	Ruby Payne-Scott	Australia	Scientists	53.1	12.2
#9	—	RH Robert H. McNaught	Australia	Scientists	52.6	17.5
#10	—	Ludwig Leichhardt	Australia	Scientists	52.5	0.8
#11	—	LH Lang Hancock	Australia	Scientists	51.9	17.2
#12	—	Bill Mollison	Australia	Scientists	51.7	0.0
#13	—	AM Andrew McAuley	Australia	Scientists	51.3	31.3
#14	—	David Warren	Australia	Scientists	50.9	1.3
#15	—	James Dunlop	Australia	Scientists	50.9	0.0
#16	—	John Batman	Australia	Scientists	50.7	2.5
#17	—	Tim Flannery	Australia	Scientists	50.4	0.0
#18	—	Thomas Brisbane	Australia	Scientists	50.2	0.0
#19	—	BI Bob Irwin	Australia	Scientists	49.8	0.9
#20	—	Hamilton Hume	Australia	Scientists	49.5	16.3
#21	—	Duncan J. Watts	Australia	Scientists	49.3	11.4
#22	—	Lawrence Hargrave	Australia	Scientists	49.2	3.6
#23	—	Charles Walter De Vis	Australia	Scientists	49.1	5.8
#24	—	John Forrest	Australia	Scientists	48.9	0.0
#25	—	RM Rodney Marks	Australia	Scientists	48.5	10.8
#26	—	Allan Cunningham	Australia	Scientists	48.3	0.0
#27	—	Brandon Carter	Australia	Scientists	48.3	0.0
#28	—	Edgeworth David	Australia	Scientists	48.2	0.0
#29	—	Augustus Charles Gregory	Australia	Scientists	48.2	13.1
#30	—	WF Walter Frederick Gale	Australia	Scientists	47.4	14.1
#31	—	Gregory Blaxland	Australia	Scientists	47.2	0.0
#32	—	John Broughton	Australia	Scientists	47.0	0.0
#33	—	Gustav Nossal	Australia	Scientists	46.5	2.8
#34	—	Ernest Giles	Australia	Scientists	46.2	0.0
#35	—	Claire Weekes	Australia	Scientists	46.1	3.7
#36	—	Bert Hinkler	Australia	Scientists	45.9	0.5
#37	—	Hans Hermann Behr	Australia	Scientists	45.5	4.4
#38	68	Jessie Christiansen	Australia	Scientists	45.5	0.2
#39	1	William John Wills	Australia	Scientists	45.5	0.0
#40	1	Alan Walsh	Australia	Scientists	45.5	15.0
#41	1	William Gosse	Australia	Scientists	45.3	5.0
#42	1	Bridget Ogilvie	Australia	Scientists	45.3	0.0
#43	1	John Macadam	Australia	Scientists	44.9	1.8
#44	1	Frederick Manson Bailey	Australia	Scientists	44.8	2.0
#45	1	Andrew Liveris	Australia	Scientists	44.7	0.1
#46	1	Margaret Wertheim	Australia	Scientists	44.6	3.0
#47	1	Michael A. Nielsen	Australia	Scientists	44.5	0.0
#48	1	KC Kay Cottee	Australia	Scientists	44.4	2.5
#49	1	John Burton Cleland	Australia	Scientists	44.3	2.3
#50	1	Robert Hanbury Brown	Australia	Scientists	44.0	0.0
#51	1	Norman Selfe	Australia	Scientists	44.0	13.8
#52	1	Kia Silverbrook	Australia	Scientists	43.9	2.3
#53	1	David Lindsay	Australia	Scientists	43.7	0.0
#54	1	William Lawson	Australia	Scientists	43.6	0.0
#55	1	Harrie Massey	Australia	Scientists	43.3	0.0
#56	1	Carl Hansen Ostenfeld	Australia	Scientists	43.3	14.4
#57	1	Alexander Forrest	Australia	Scientists	43.2	2.6
#58	1	Edmund Kennedy	Australia	Scientists	42.9	1.3
#59	1	Isabel Clifton Cookson	Australia	Scientists	42.8	12.6
#60	1	PK Pavel Kroupa	Australia	Scientists	42.7	17.9
#61	1	Richard Dalitz	Australia	Scientists	42.6	0.0
#62	1	Kirsten Banks	Australia	Scientists	42.6	17.7
#63	1	LM Lidia Morawska	Australia	Scientists	42.4	0.0
#64	1	John Clements Wickham	Australia	Scientists	42.4	0.3
#65	1	Ronald N. Bracewell	Australia	Scientists	42.4	2.5
#66	1	Tanya Monro	Australia	Scientists	42.3	15.8
#67	1	BV Bobbie Vaile	Australia	Scientists	42.2	22.5
#68	1	PL Phillip Law	Australia	Scientists	42.2	5.2
#69	1	Geoffrey Burnstock	Australia	Scientists	42.2	3.3
#70	1	Francis Thomas Gregory	Australia	Scientists	42.1	4.2
#71	1	Rodney Baxter	Australia	Scientists	42.0	0.0
#72	1	HH Herbert Huppert	Australia	Scientists	41.8	0.0
#73	1	William Hovell	Australia	Scientists	41.7	0.0
#74	1	KH Ken Hill	Australia	Scientists	41.5	6.0
#75	1	Frederick McCoy	Australia	Scientists	41.5	0.0
#76	1	PA P. A. Yeomans	Australia	Scientists	41.4	4.8
#77	1	DB David Buckingham	Australia	Scientists	41.4	6.9
#78	1	John Tebbutt	Australia	Scientists	41.3	0.0
#79	1	Alfred William Howitt	Australia	Scientists	41.3	0.0
#80	1	John Rymill	Australia	Scientists	41.1	1.8
#81	1	CB Charles Birch	Australia	Scientists	41.1	0.0
#82	1	CS Colin Stanley Gum	Australia	Scientists	41.0	0.0
#83	1	HM Howard M. Wiseman	Australia	Scientists	41.0	9.5
#84	1	AB Arthur Birch	Australia	Scientists	41.0	0.5
#85	1	GR Gerald R. Allen	Australia	Scientists	40.9	0.0
#86	1	Ben Gascoigne	Australia	Scientists	40.9	0.0
#87	1	AC Adrienne Clarke	Australia	Scientists	40.8	2.5
#88	1	KT Kevin Thiele	Australia	Scientists	40.7	16.4
#89	1	AC Alexander Collie	Australia	Scientists	40.7	9.2
#90	1	John Paul Wild	Australia	Scientists	40.7	0.0
#91	1	CA Charles Austin Gardner	Australia	Scientists	40.6	0.0
#92	1	Veena Sahajwalla	Australia	Scientists	40.6	0.0
#93	1	MH Marshall Hatch	Australia	Scientists	40.6	15.0
#94	1	SP Sally Poncet	Australia	Scientists	40.6	22.8
#95	1	RS Ronald Sydney Nyholm	Australia	Scientists	40.6	1.7
#96	1	Richard Sanders Rogers	Australia	Scientists	40.5	15.0
#97	1	Alex George	Australia	Scientists	40.5	0.0
#98	1	ML Mick Leahy	Australia	Scientists	40.4	0.0
#99	1	Jeremy Mould	Australia	Scientists	40.3	0.3
#100	1	MB Macinley Butson	Australia	Scientists	40.3	10.0

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